Tech Events in Athens

Παρασκευή 8 Μαΐου, από τις έξι το απόγευμα μέχρι αργά, σας περιμένουμε στο Μουσείο Μπενάκη της οδού Πειραιώς για καφέ και startup networking στο τελευταίο Open Coffee της σεζόν!

Επί σκηνής θα βρεθούν:

– Ο Μηνάς Λιαροκάπης, συνιδρυτής και CEO, θα παρουσιάσει την Acumino. Η εταιρεία, έχοντας συγκεντρώσει χρηματοδότηση ύψους 16,5 εκ ευρώ, δημιουργεί μοντέλα τεχνητής νοημοσύνης νέας γενιάς για ρομπότ εργαζόμενους που εκτελούν επιδέξιες εργασίες σε βιομηχανικά περιβάλλοντα.

– Ο Χρήστος Έλληνας, συνιδρυτής και CTO, θα παρουσιάσει την Nodes & Links. Η εταιρεία, με συνολική χρηματοδότηση 30 εκ. δολ., παρέχει τεχνητή νοημοσύνη για την υλοποίηση σύνθετων έργων υποδομής, με κορυφαίους κατασκευαστές πελάτες σε όλο τον κόσμο.

– Ο Θανάσης Αυγερινός, συνιδρυτής και VP Engineering, θα μοιραστεί την διαδρομή της Mayhem Security, από την δημιουργία του πρώτου αυτόνομου συστήματος application security στον κόσμο το 2016 και την ανάπτυξη της εταιρείας με συνολικά κεφάλαια 38 εκ. δολ., ως την εξαγορά της τον περασμένο Νοέμβριο από την Bugcrowd.

Η προσέλευση ξεκινά στις 6 το απόγευμα, για καφέ και catchup στο μπαρ του Μουσείου Μπενάκη, Πειραιώς 138. Οι παρουσιάσεις στο αμφιθέατρο ξεκινούν στις 7. Αμέσως μετά, επιστρέφουμε στο μπαρ για networking ως αργά.

Η είσοδος είναι δωρεάν και ελεύθερη για κάθε ενδιαφερόμενο. Μπορείτε να δηλώσετε τη συμμετοχή σας και να δείτε τη λίστα συμμετεχόντων και εδώ. Συνδεθείτε από πριν με άλλους που θα είναι εκεί!

Από το 2007 έως σήμερα, το Open Coffee έχει καθιερωθεί ως το σημείο συνάντησης της startup κοινότητας. Κάθε μήνα, entrepreneurs και startup enthusiasts ανανεώνουν το ραντεβού τους με σκοπό να γνωριστούν, να ανταλλάξουν εμπειρίες και επαφές, εν τέλει να συνεργαστούν στην επόμενή τους προσπάθεια.

Πείτε το στους φίλους σας και να είστε εκεί!

We are rolling into the 10th iteration of foobar.i/o
with "Event Driven AI Orchestrator"

The case: AI agents are powerful but unpredictable. The real challenge isn't making them smarter, it's keeping them under control.
In this session, Eric Johnson builds an event-driven AI orchestrator using serverless on AWS, where deterministic infrastructure orchestrates non-deterministic AI agents. You'll see how EventBridge, Step Functions, and Lambda work together to coordinate agents that can reason freely while the system enforces guardrails, retries, and sequencing.

The result: AI that's useful without being dangerous. This is a live-build session, expect working code, real demos, and practical patterns you can take home.
Who would really want to miss that?

Join us Tuesday, May 12 𝗮𝘁 6:30 𝗽𝗺 for the pre-summer edition of foobar io Greece meetup!
You will find us at Michalakopoulou 80,Athens (1st floor) hosted by XM (again)!

Bio: Eric Johnson is a Principal Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services and a father of five who believes technology should be fun. He specializes in serverless architectures and has built a reputation for making complex technical concepts genuinely understandable. A keynote speaker at conferences worldwide, Eric is most at home on stage, whether he's breaking down event-driven design for seasoned architects or encouraging students writing their first lines of code. He brings humor and energy to everything he does, because he's convinced that if you're not enjoying the work, you're doing it wrong.

Fellow Bitcoiners and blockchain enthusiasts, join us for a night of presentations, pizza & drinks with:

• dzdidi will compare centralized and decentralized social media platforms, including X, Nostr and Pubky. DZ is a software engineer at Synonym.
• Dean Pappas, who will introduce us to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations and Sowellian Governance, a capital-based decision-making system for decentralized organizations. Dean is a governance researcher and builder with 10+ years in lifecycle marketing and data analytics. Early crypto adopter (since 2013), with experience across Ethereum Classic, Marlin Protocol, and Zel Labs. Currently Director at Realms and co-founder of IslandDAO, AthensDAO, and Grape.

The presentations will be in English. Attendance is free - just bring your curiosity.

The venue is Suihub at Agiou Markou 22, Athens 105 60: https://maps.app.goo.gl/h8Xaixvp1RzgpaVeA

🤖 AI agents aren't chatbots! They decide, they act, they call APIs, they handle data and when something goes wrong, you find out days later, if at all. Over the past twelve months, production agents have leaked credentials, executed unauthorized transactions, and exfiltrated confidential data through prompt injection. Classical security and QA playbooks don't catch these attack surfaces, because the trust boundary just moved, and most teams haven't caught up yet.

We're gathering for an honest conversation - no theory, no vendor pitches. On the panel, practitioners who work on agent security every day, from people leading international open-source security frameworks to QA veterans who know first-hand why deterministic testing collapses in the face of non-deterministic AI. We'll talk about the new attack surfaces, real production incidents, and what every builder needs to know before shipping agents.

Most AI security conversations happen behind closed doors. This one happens under the open Athens sky — accessible to all levels, beer in hand, in the city that invented public discourse.🍻

📅 Thursday, May 28, 2026, 19:00, we'll discuss the security of Agentic AI systems, real-world incidents, emerging attack surfaces, and what every builder needs to know before they ship.

📍 Where? In the back courtyard of New York College, 38 Vasilissis Amalias Avenue, Athens 105 58 — a relaxed, open-air space in the heart of the city, ideal for conversation and networking.

🚌 Getting there: Right across from the National Garden:
Metro: "Syntagma" Station (Lines 2 & 3) — 3 minutes on foot
Tram: "Syntagma" Stop
Buses: 040, 550, X14, 5, 15 (Stops "Amalias" or "Syntagma")
Trolleybuses: 2, 4, 5, 11 (Stop "Syntagma")

👉 Panel Discussion: Securing the Agentic Web
An honest conversation about the security challenges of agentic AI — what actually goes wrong in practice, what the new attack surfaces look like, and how you build AI agents that won't betray you when incidents hit. Accessible to all levels — no prior security background required.

👉 Fireside Chat: Success Stories
Honest, first-hand accounts from teams inside Greek enterprises who deployed agentic AI into production and lived through what came next. They'll walk us through the risks they actually faced.

📋 Program
18:45 – 19:00: 🚪 Arrival & welcome
19:00 – 19:30: 🎙️ Panel Discussion — Securing the Agentic Web (30')

• John Sotiropoulos

19:30 – 20:00: 🔥 Fireside Chat — Success Stories (30')

• Romanos Matthaiasos

20:00 – 20:15: 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️ Q&A — open questions from the audience (15')
20:15 – 21:30: 🍻 Networking & Drinks (75')

🎯 Why you should come

1. You'll understand how agentic AI systems fail in real scenarios — not theory, but what has actually happened
2. You'll get practical insights from people working actively in AI security
3. You'll meet builders and founders facing the same challenges as you
4. You'll connect with the Greek AI community at the largest tech gathering of the year
5. And you'll have an unforgettable evening — with a beer in hand, under the Athenian sky

🍻 Seats are running out faster than the first beer. Book now! 🚨

🚀 Supporters
Thanks to New York College for hosting us and to the Panathenea 2026 team for the framework.
This event is supported by HumanBound — an AI agent security testing platform that helps teams find vulnerabilities in their agents before attackers do.

🎤 Speakers

• John Sotiropoulos — Leader of the global OWASP Agentic AI Top 10 initiative, one of the most important open-source frameworks for AI agent security worldwide.
• Romanos Matthaiasos — Software QA Manager at Eurolife FFH & ISTQB Instructor. Evangelist of the shift-left mentality with 17+ years in test automation, who'll explain why classic QA playbooks fall apart in the face of non-deterministic AI.

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